Myth About "The Great Wall " Of Benin Kingdom
- The ancient wall of Benin was four times longer than the wall of China, its length is about 16,000Km.
- The Benin wall was described in Guinness book of record in the 1974 edition as the biggest earthworks in the world before we got to the mechanical age.
- 100 times more of the material was used to build the wall than the Great Pyramid of Cheops.
- The wall provides a defensive barrier against enemies and invaders to the city.
- The Great Wall construction commenced around 800AD and finished around 1460AD.
- The Benin Kingdom community land is about 6500km
- The Great Wall ranged in gigantic 20 meters high, 66 feet around the whole Benin city.
- It took about 150millions of hours of digging and creating the Great Wall.
- Ethnomathematical method, which means the connection between culture and mathematics was used in constructing the Great wall, which was a marvel to the Europeans when the first land in Africa.
- The Great Wall was destroyed, burned down by the United Kingdom force around 1887. Most of the city Art and Bronzes was looted and taken by the United Kingdom.
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